El músico a principios de la década de los años 70 del siglo pasado. (Foto: RanchoNEWS)
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iudad Juárez, Chihuahua. 15 de febrero de 2025. (RanchoNEWS).- David Gordon Parsons (16 June 1944 – 15 February 2025) was a New Zealand composer, multi-instrumentalist, and musicologist, informa wikipedia.
Trained as a Sitar player, Parsons started composing new-age music in the early 1980s with the albums Sound of the Mother Ship and Tibetan Plateau, which were released by the small California-based label Fortuna Records. He then continued producing several albums of new-age albums influenced by Eastern instruments, which gained a solid reputation in the genre. In the 1990s, he developed a second career as an ethnomusicologist, recording performances of traditional music from across Asia and the Middle East that were subsequently released on the Celestial Harmonies label.
Inspired by a 1965 visit to New Zealand by sitar player Ravi Shankar, Parsons began to learn the instrument, eventually travelling to India in the early 1970s to continue his education in the instrument with Krishna Chakravarty. At around the same time, Parsons developed an interest in electronic music.
